I'd like to join Paul in congradulating Jordan and CO. for this
victory. One of the reasons I got in to local politics was because of the
heavy handed way that local police and the current city council treated the
Hard Times and continues to treat Mpls' counter culture. Since the
original closing of the Hard Times, the MCDA declined to renew the lease of
the Free Store at 15th and Franklin, and the city continues to harrass the
owner of the Dollar Store, also on Franklin. I see the first incident as an
attack on the Mpls counter culture and the later two incidents as vailed
assaults on the low income residents of the Phillips Neighborhood. All
three prove that that current Mpls local government opperates in a top
heavy, beurocratic manner and could use a more personal touch. I really
hope that the Hard Times can win this in court so that many other businesses
now feeling the same treatment from the city can have hope and feel like the
system could work for them at a time when they often percieve it as
hopeless. I also hope that they win for a more personal reason. Most of
the people who make up the Hard Times collective are long time freinds of
mine and they're good people.
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| Tamir Nolley
| Candidate for Mpls City Council, Ward 6
| Hop on the Nolley Trolley !
| http://www.nolleytrolley.org
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